I can piss off my wife just by walking into the room. It amazes even me. It doesn’t happen every time, and I seem to have no control over it. But the transformation when it happens is incredible. And scary.
So that’s what that is. I always thought it was my jaw cracking in a slightly arthritic manner. Now that you mention it I do kind of feel it in my ear.
Huh, never made the connection.
Oh yeah, and I can wiggle my ears, independantly if needed. Used to totally freak my barber out when I was 12.
I can cause bizarre inclement weather to strike any road trip by being behind the wheel. If it was 70 and sunny yesterday, but now it’s pouring 3 inches per hour onto an icy road, with the temperature hovering around freezing, and a thick fog bank comes rolling in just as the sun sets… it’s a good bet that the clouds started forming when I said “Hey, I’ll be happy to drive.”
To balance this curse – or perhaps because I’ve adapted to it – I am the best “emergency” driver of any of my peer group. I’ve avoided accidents where everyone in the car was convinced that we were going to cash in our chips for good. I’m not so great in regular driving because I tend to cheat on my safety margins: tailgating, speeding, weaving a little bit. But give me crappy weather, insane traffic, psychotic locals in large poorly maintained vehicles, and/or a rollover/spin/fender-bender accident happening in the adjacent lane, and I’ll get your car and your passengers out the other side without a scratch.
Also, I can apparently deduce where to massage someone’s muscles/tendons from a description of where the pain is, even when the two aren’t the same. Pain under the shoulder blade? There’s a spot at the base of the neck and another near the curve of the spine that I’d go for first. Pain between two fingers? Let me rub your wrist. It’s a weird empathic thing my grandmother could do. Sure comes in handy after a long drive, especially if there’s bad weather…
I can make a farting noise by cupping the palm of my hand over my eye and pressing.
Hey, me too!
I can also cause any checkout line in the grocery store to stop dead just by joining the queue. My wife won’t go to the store with me anymore, unless absolutely necessary.
My only useful secret talent, though, is finding lost things. If something gets lost around the house, I can almost always track it down within 5 minutes or so. My wife takes great advantage of this (I found her calculator for her last night, in fact).
I had to look up Eustachian Tubes on Wikipedia to figure out what you were talking about. I can do that, too. I thought everybody could. Turns out I’m special.
As far as secret talents that I was aware of before reading this thread… I’ve been told that I give really good blowjobs. :o
I seem to be able to, just by thinking about a song, make it come on the radio in ten minutes or less. Doesn’t even have to be a popular song, either.
Nah, as I understand it, Chuck had sex with the women. With me, it’s just dating. Or date. It’s been as few as just one.
I am multiorgasmic. The most orgasms I have had in one go has been 37, but I bet I could do better than that with the right partner and proper lubricant.
I can also wiggle my eyeballs, but that isn’t nearly as fun or impressive as the orgasm thing.
Where do I sign up?
:dubious: How you doin’?
I knew a guy in middle school who could vomit on command. He also had the most expressive caterpillar-like eyebrows I’ve ever seen in person.
As for me, um, I’m always cold? Does that count? Oh, and
I can write good porn (as in other people - including a sex worker - think it’s good) despite never having had sex
It’s not all that secret, really, cuz it’s on my LJ.
I didn’t even know that some people couldn’t do that at will.
I didn’t know I had eustachian tubes.
There’s a few of these talents I possess, namely:
Wiggling of ears (thought that the muscles for that went away in adulthood, or so I read as a kid)
Making farting noises with my hand over my eye (who else would have thought to try this?!)
I can grow wicked neck hair days after a haircut that makes me look unkempt.
I can fix people’s computers by coming over to it when called. My presence seems to just make it work. Unfortunately doesn’t work on my own computer.
I can’t think of any other fun talents I have.
Huh, I thought everyone could do that. Yay, I have a super power!
crunch pop crunch crunch squinsh crunch pop
Aw, come now… I’ve never once puked in the MMP!
Can you do both at the same time?
As for me, kids and dogs generally like me. They don’t obey me, they just like me.
My Eustachian tubes don’t work or so a few doctors have told me. For me, yawning in an airplane just means that I’m sleepy.
Always Brings Pie… are you missing an Up in your user name?
I can make a really strange funny voice. Maybe I’ll Youtube it someday. Umm… yeah I got nothin’ >_<